Did it themselves?? Lol, dude, THEY make the real iPhones.
I don't believe you understand the post you're replying to. It refers to the iPhone OS, and no Chinese company makes that. Point your fingers toward Cupertino. And unless "THEY" refers to "China" in general, this manufacturer does not make the real iPhone.
You have to understand how this counterfeit business works. In "daytime" they produce real western merchandise, electronics, clothing etc. Then they get paid by underground companies to use the same assembly lines and the same blueprints to produce cheaper models with cheaper components and no quality assurance.
That is largely apocryphal. While this does occur in a number of Asian factories (especially shoes and other general merchandise), its prevalence in the electronics industry is substantially lower than implied by this statement. It is quite difficult for a company to run at night producing the
same hardware illicitly, as the component inventories would show discrepancies, and companies closely supervise valuable operations to avoid losing the contract.
Instead, close
approximations sometimes take advantage of tooling, while supplying their own components and entering into their own contracts, right in broad daylight. The knockoff casings are made by uninvolved factories not subject to contracts, and until final assembly, the knockoff product does not resemble the original (it just looks like the internals of any number of electronic devices). An event like the counterfeit Cisco routers is fairly rare, where the exact same product was produced and illegally labeled by the same factory. Counterfeiters are usually smarter than that.
This product shares little to nothing in common with the actual iPhone in terms of components. It is merely an aesthetic attempt at a replica.
The chinese mock ups started flooding the market and since the quality was real bad they went out of business 2 years after their chinese venture.
It is much more likely that the company went out of business due to price competition in that particular market segment.
Outsourcing to China was probably an attempt to reduce costs and a failed bid to salvage a company with thinning profits. Outsourcing may have been the final nail in the coffin, but it's not likely the cause.
Even if resellers were accidentally buying the counterfeits (which would have to be more convincing than this HiPhone), and the brand image suffered, it was their lack of effort (or ability) to tighten control of their distribution channel that caused them to go out of business.
